Heating and ventilating



NrrEn STATES PATENT @FFICE.

' WILLIAM F. BEEOHER, OF CLEVELAND, OHIO.

HEATING AND VENTILATIING.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 236,141, dated January 4, 1881 Application filed June 29, 1880.

To all whom it may concern Be it known that I, WILLIAM F. BEEGHER, of Cleveland, in the county of Guyahoga and State of Ohio, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Heating and Ventilating; and I do hereby declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact description of the invention, such as will enable others skilledin the art to which it pertains to make and use it, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, which form part of this specification, and in which- Figure l is a vertical sectional view of the ventilating stack, showing the manner of coin necting the same with the different rooms of a building. Fig. 2 is a vertical sectional view, in plane as acof Fig. 3, of the passage Which incloses the heat-conducting pipes and ventilating-stack. Fig. 3 is a view, in front elevation,

of the heat-conducting pipes, the ventilating-4 stack, and the furnace, said view having the front wall of the passage which incloses said pipes and stack removed, and also having the wall of the heating-chamber removed. Fig. 4 is a plan view of the third floor of a building,

showing, in cross-section, the ventilatingstack, and also the heat-pipes. Fig. 5 is a plan view of the second floor of a building, showing, in cross-section, the ventilating-pipe, and also the heat-pipes leading to the second and third floors. Fig. 6 is a plan view of the first floor of a building, showing, in cross-section, the ventilating-pipe and heat-pipes leading to the first, second, and third floors. Fig. 7 is a plan view of the basement of the same building, showing, in cross-section, the ventilating-stack, and also the position of the furnace and hot-air chamber. cal sectional view of the ventilating pipe, showing, also in section, my improved mechanism for connecting the ven tilating-pipe with the rooms.- Fig. 9 is a view, in transverse sec? tion, of Fig. 8 on the line 00 y.. Fig. 10 isadetached vertical sectional View of a portion of one of the heating pipes, to which is attached my improved adj ustin gplate for regulating the supply of hot air. Fig. 11 is a plan view of my improved mechanism for regulating the amount of heat discharged from thehot-air chamber into the heat-pipe. Fig. 12 is a plan and vertical sectional view of the adjusting- Fig. 8 is a verti- (No model.)

plate detached from its collar-plate. Fig. 13 is a detached view, in cross-section, of the collar-plate, adapted to hold the adjusting-plate shown in Fig. 12, and within which it slides.

In said drawings, A represents the heating-chamber; A, the furnace, which is provided with a pipe, .01, for the passage of smoke and gas. This pipe at passes through the ventilating-stack B. This ventilating-stack extends froin the basement to the roof, and the object of placing the smoke-pipe within the ventilating-stack is to heat the air within and cause an upward draft. Connected with this ventilating-stack are apertures B upon each of the several floors of the building.

In Figs. 8 and 9 are shown, indetail, the manner of connecting the apertures B with the ventilating-stack. This consists of a tube, of any desired material or construction, the only essential feature being that it is closed in all parts, save at the entrance B and at its upper portion where it opens directly into the ventilating-stack.

As shown in Fig. 3, each floor of the building is connected with the furnace-room by separate pipes C. These heating-pipes O terminate at the upper portion of the room.

It is a well-known fact that when different floors of a building are to be heated, all other things being equal, the upper room of the building will receive the greatest-amount of heat. leading thereto is longer and the draft consequently better. To avoid this difficulty I have constructed the device shown in Figs. 10, 11, 12, and 13. This device consists in providing an adjustable opening attached to each pipe. The object of this adjustable opening is to permit the operator to regulate the point in the hot-air chamber from which heat should be conveyed to each floor. The greatestamount of heat will be. stored in the upper portion of the hot-air chamber. The consequence is, that the pipe leading to the first floor being shorter, and its draft consequently less, it should re ceive its supply from the upper portion of the hot-air chamber, while the pipe leading to the upper floor being longer and draft greater, said pipe should receive its supply from a point below that from which it is taken for the first floor. Any intermediate floors should This is due to the fact that the pipe receive their supply at points between the first and upper floors. My device for regulating the supply consists of a plate, D, having an oblong hole or groove in one side thereof, and a flange upon each edge, within which the collar-plate E may slide. This collar-plate E is connected by an elbow with theheat-pipe O in such a manner as to permit of its vertical adjustment.

I do not limit myself to the specific construction of this portion of my device. Other forms of connection and adjustability might easily be made.

I prefer to construct my ventilating-chamber of metal, and also to inclose the ventilating-chamber with the heating-pipes C within a single passage, 0. \Vhen this is done the heat that radiates from the pipes assists in heating the "entilating-chamber, which materially increasesthe draft both in the smokepipe and also in the "entilating-stack.

Having thus described my process and mechanism, what I claim is- 1. In combination with a hot-air chamber, the furnace-pipes leading to different floors of the building, said pipes being provided with adjusting-plates, whereby heat may be taken from any plane in the hot-air chamber desired, substantially as and for the purposes shown and described.

2. The combination, with allot-air chamber and heat-conducting pipes, of intermediate pipes, respectively connecting the two former parts, said intermediate pipes being adapted to be vertically adjusted, substantially as set forth.

In testimony whereof I have signed my name to this specification in the presence of two subscribing witnesses.

XVILLIAM I BEEOHER.

Witnesses JNo. (JRowELL, Jr., ALBERT E. LYNCH. 

